RE: multiple os on single pc. was When is a Windows network not a Windows network

Because with partition magic, you must reboot.

With VMWare, you run the guest OS in a window of your main OS.  You need a
fair chunk of memory to get acceptable performance, but there is no booting.

My desktop os is Win2K.  Say a customer calls and says "When I use your
software under Win95, something bad happens".  Well, I just start VMWare,
load the Win95 virutual machine and try it out.  WITHOUT EVER REBOOTING.

It really is pretty slick.  You even see the BIOS boot when you load a vm.

They have a free trial download.  Check it out.  As soon as you see it run,
the light will click on with "now I see what Bob was trying to say!".

Also, Visual Studio 6.0 will coexist with Visual Studio .NET.  Check out
http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/forums.asp and you can find some
threads about this.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 2:29 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: multiple os on single pc. was When is a Windows network not a
Windows network


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Bob Crothers

>Check out www.vmware.com .  It allows you to run another OS from WITHIN
your
>main OS.  The main (Host) OS must be WinNT, Win2K or Linux.  The guest OS
>can be pretty much anything that runs on Intel including all flavors of
>windows, linux, BeOS, etc.

Bob,

How is this different, better then partition magic ?  I am setting up my pc
soon to have 3 partions.  1. w2k with visual studio 6.0    2. w2k with
visual studio .NET    3. Linux.

Maybe a 4th with w98 to support legacy code.

Thanks,

Steve Richter


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